I am a former EUROCONTROL software analyst-programmer in Flight Plan Processing at Karlsruhe UIR control center Karlsruhe with operational responsibility of maintenance and enhancement 1992 - 1997. My experience is in large systems also outside the ATC area. Systems psychology and human computer interaction areas are of special interest to me and I have taught in these areas at Istanbul Yeditepe University computer department.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Attention Window and the Situation Awareness

ATTENTION
WINDOW AND THE SITUATION AWARENESS

DİKKAT PENCERESİ VE DURUM
FARKINDALIĞI

Looking
is turning our fase and eyes to a certain direction and percieve the objects
there as a whole.For example,
percieving that the sides of a rectangle connect and the sides are parallel.

In
contrast, seeing is identifying this object as ‘door’.Looking is a simple operation without mental
depth, a process in which lower level seeing information is stored temporarily
at the buffer regions.

The attention
window may be visually three dimensional as in driving.Attention window is not visual only.The area which has a high relational depth
forms the attention window when focusing on an abstract subject.

In
tasks such as Air Traffic Control, the controller who may be faced by serious
problems, will have to redirect his/her attention window, shed light upon other
subjects, direct his/her attention just after